Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard University is justly proud of the part which its graduates and undergraduates have done in war work. It is only natural that active military service should receive the greatest measure of praise, for with it go all dangers and hardships. Yet there are many other fields in which men may serve with great benefit to their nation. A group of University undergraduates has just finished a task, the completion of which deserves most honorable mention. These men gave up their Christmas vacation to go into the woods nearby and gather fuel to relieve the shortage so keenly felt...
...national government has acted wisely in exempting from immediate military service all students of draft age who are regularly engaged in engineering studies, thus placing them in the same category with students in our medical schools. The experience of the other warring countries has demonstrated how large a part engineering, in its wider applications, is now called upon to play in military operations on land, at sea and in the air. We must keep our resources in engineering skill recruited to top notch at all hazards...
...Part of Dr. Sargent's statement is as follows...
...happiness we wish our friends is not a personal happiness. We cannot expect the coming year to be one filled with pleasure and merriment, for war means death and no matter how successfully we battle the casualty lists are bound to grow as we take over an ever-increasing part of the Western Front. Yet the happiness which can only be attained through much suffering, for the words happiness and victory are synonymous in the national vocabulary. The year we are just beginning is to be a long-remembered one in the history of the United States...
...Building on February 2, at which it is probable that informal relay teams in the 390 and 780-yard runs will represent the University, and individual runners in the other events. From the men who report daily for practice Freshman and informal relay teams will be picked the latter part of next week, and be given special attention to prepare them for the B. A. A meet and for other meets which may come before it. Arrangements are being completed for meets to be held by the Irish-American Athletic Association and by the Lawrence Light Guards at Medford...